NEW BOOKS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 9

NEW BOOKS.

"Not Far Off: Tho Gathering Signs of Christ's Speedy Return," by the Rev. E. Middlcton. The writer of this little- book endeavours to show that tho return of Christ is at hand, and that the Now Testament parables are divine forecasts and predictions which indicate that in the matter of truo religion things would not improve as the dispensation advanced, but that the last times would bo parallel to the days of Noah and Lot. The writer points to tho higher criticism, Christian Science, Socialism, the "World Corporation" (which will displace all Governments and control all industrial life), as signs of the coming end, and finds support for his contention in various prophesies. Mr. Middlcton declares that his survey shows "all tilings centralised and ready for the Master mind to seize and dominate. . . . Tho Antichrist will immediately take the reins of government. . . All things seem ready for him, but before he can be manifested Christ will come and snatch His Church away, ere the throes and woes of the'great tribulation burst upon the astonished world.".

Professor Haverficld, in an address on "Roman London" to the members of tho Classical Association at King's College, London, said at the present day tho geographical conditions of London were ceasing to count. Tho opening of the Atlantic to trade and traffic, and the opening of mineral resources in tho north, had changed the incidence of geographical conditions, and ho found himself wondering whether—certainly not in his timo, but at some future day—the capital of England would be transferred: from London to tho north, and whether tho Government would follow the papers which had already • begun to move to Manchester.